Koobi Fora Field School

Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, click the link to see our video!

So you want to hunt for evidence of our earliest ancestors?……Welcome to Koobi Fora

The National Museums of Kenya and George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology have teamed up to provide you with a unique opportunity to explore some of the most remote parts of Africa and search for evidence of hominins in the most dramatic landscapes you will ever experience.

((YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A GWU STUDENT TO ATTEND THE KFFS) to be a part of the Koobi Fora Field School 2018, the premier paleoanthropology training experience. Our team of experts from all over the world have begun conducting exciting new field projects that you can be a part of. Field projects include:

Studying the biology of long-distance travel in modern communities of pastoralists

Finding evidence of human scavenging and hunting 2.0 million years ago

Exploring evidence of climate change and animal communities over the last 4 million years

Discovering the changes associated with the emergence of domesticated animals in East Africa